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This 22-track CD isn't exactly the "complete" group of sessions Dusty Springfield recorded for the BBC. It's just all of the ones that have survived in good sound quality; there were some others, sadly, that the radio network didn't preserve (including her first solo session in November 1963, and performances of some songs she never put on her official record releases). Fortunately, the 22 that do remain (including three she recorded in July 1962 in a pop-folk style as part of the Springfields) make for a good and lengthy disc. True, it's a little short on the prime bonuses that 1960s BBC rock comps usually offer, namely songs that were never included on standard releases. But there are a half dozen of those, all of them quality covers that suit her style, including Bobby Lewis' "Tossin' and Turnin'," Stevie Wonder's "Uptight (Everything's Alright)," Dee Dee Warwick's "We're Doing Fine," the Rascals' "Good Lovin'," Jackie Wilson's "Higher and Higher (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me)," and the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody." The other tracks include BBC renditions of some of her hits ("Wishin' and Hopin'," "Little by Little," "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me," "Son of a Preacher Man," "I Just Don't Know What to with Myself," "Little by Little"), though there are just as many lesser-known tunes from her '60s releases (including two notably different versions, oddly enough, of Betty Everett's "I Can't Hear You [No More]"). In common with many BBC releases, the arrangements and performances of the songs she also cut for records aren't too different from the studio versions; in fact, since Springfield habitually employed pretty elaborate orchestral production, they're noticeably thinner. But they're still good, and detectably different from their more familiar official counterparts. That's what you want from a BBC collection, and in some ways it's actually a more consistent listen than most of Springfield's non-best-of albums, since almost every song is a soulful pop number that suits her strengths.
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
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Tom Springfield, ComposerLyricist - The Springfields, MainArtist
℗ 2007 BBC
Traditional, ComposerLyricist - Tom Springfield, Arranger, Work Arranger - The Springfields, MainArtist
℗ 2007 BBC
Tom Springfield, ComposerLyricist - The Springfields, MainArtist
℗ 2007 BBC
Traditional, ComposerLyricist - Dusty Springfield, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist
℗ 2007 BBC
Dusty Springfield, MainArtist - Ritchie Adams, ComposerLyricist - Malou Rene, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2007 BBC
Burt Bacharach, ComposerLyricist - Hal David, ComposerLyricist - Dusty Springfield, MainArtist
℗ 2007 BBC
Carole King, ComposerLyricist - Gerry Goffin, ComposerLyricist - Dusty Springfield, MainArtist
℗ 1964 BBC
Burt Bacharach, ComposerLyricist - Hal David, ComposerLyricist - Dusty Springfield, MainArtist
℗ 1964 BBC
Dusty Springfield, MainArtist - Tom Springfield, ComposerLyricist - Clive Gerald Westlake, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1964 BBC
Carole King, ComposerLyricist - Gerry Goffin, ComposerLyricist - Dusty Springfield, MainArtist
℗ 1965 BBC
Dusty Springfield, MainArtist - Buddy Kaye, ComposerLyricist - Bea Verdi, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1965 BBC
Inez Foxx, ComposerLyricist - Dusty Springfield, MainArtist - Charles Foxx, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1965 BBC
Dusty Springfield, MainArtist - Buddy Kaye, ComposerLyricist - Bea Verdi, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1966 BBC
Henry Cosby, ComposerLyricist - Sylvia Moy, ComposerLyricist - Stevie Wonder, ComposerLyricist - Dusty Springfield, MainArtist
℗ 1966 BBC
Kay Rogers, ComposerLyricist - Richard Ahlert, ComposerLyricist - Dusty Springfield, MainArtist
℗ 1966 BBC
Horace Ott, ComposerLyricist - Dusty Springfield, MainArtist
℗ 1966 BBC
Isaac Hayes, ComposerLyricist - Steve Cropper, ComposerLyricist - Dusty Springfield, MainArtist - David Porter, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1966 BBC
Simon Napier-Bell, Translator - Vicki Wickham, Translator - Vito Pallavicini, Author - Pino Donaggio, Composer - Dusty Springfield, MainArtist
℗ 1966 BBC
Rudy Clark, ComposerLyricist - Arthur Resnick, ComposerLyricist - Dusty Springfield, MainArtist
℗ 1966 BBC
Barry Gibb, ComposerLyricist - Dusty Springfield, MainArtist - Robin Gibb, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1970 BBC
John David Hurley, ComposerLyricist - Dusty Springfield, MainArtist - Ronnie Stephen Wilkins, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1970 BBC
Gary Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Dusty Springfield, MainArtist - Raynard Miner, ComposerLyricist - Carl William Smith, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1970 BBC
Album review
This 22-track CD isn't exactly the "complete" group of sessions Dusty Springfield recorded for the BBC. It's just all of the ones that have survived in good sound quality; there were some others, sadly, that the radio network didn't preserve (including her first solo session in November 1963, and performances of some songs she never put on her official record releases). Fortunately, the 22 that do remain (including three she recorded in July 1962 in a pop-folk style as part of the Springfields) make for a good and lengthy disc. True, it's a little short on the prime bonuses that 1960s BBC rock comps usually offer, namely songs that were never included on standard releases. But there are a half dozen of those, all of them quality covers that suit her style, including Bobby Lewis' "Tossin' and Turnin'," Stevie Wonder's "Uptight (Everything's Alright)," Dee Dee Warwick's "We're Doing Fine," the Rascals' "Good Lovin'," Jackie Wilson's "Higher and Higher (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me)," and the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody." The other tracks include BBC renditions of some of her hits ("Wishin' and Hopin'," "Little by Little," "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me," "Son of a Preacher Man," "I Just Don't Know What to with Myself," "Little by Little"), though there are just as many lesser-known tunes from her '60s releases (including two notably different versions, oddly enough, of Betty Everett's "I Can't Hear You [No More]"). In common with many BBC releases, the arrangements and performances of the songs she also cut for records aren't too different from the studio versions; in fact, since Springfield habitually employed pretty elaborate orchestral production, they're noticeably thinner. But they're still good, and detectably different from their more familiar official counterparts. That's what you want from a BBC collection, and in some ways it's actually a more consistent listen than most of Springfield's non-best-of albums, since almost every song is a soulful pop number that suits her strengths.
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 00:59:19
- Main artists: Dusty Springfield
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2007 Mercury Records Limited This Compilation ℗ 2007 Mercury Records Limited
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